Making a difference: Finalists revealed for the British Journalism Awards in association with TSB

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It is the third year that this new set of awards for public interest journalism have been held. They are open to all journalists producing work for a UK audience.

Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford said: "This year there were a record number of entries, more than 250, which tells its own story about the quality of work which is being produced by journalists across the UK.

"Some of the more popular categories – such as Investigation of the Year and Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year – attracted more than 40 high-quality entries. So making it on to any of the shortlists of finalists is a great achievement.

"Having witnessed all the judging sessions I know that the judges set about their task with open-minded diligence and a determination to pick the winners without fear or favour.

"With journalism and press freedom currently under attack in this country, the British Journalism Awards finalists remind us what is at stake".

British Journalism Awards judge Ian Reeves, from the Centre for Journalism, said: "In a year when the reputation of journalism is under scrutiny like never before it was massively encouraging to see so many high-quality pieces of work across different media.

"The message that came across in all the judging sessions I was involved with was the important role of journalism in holding power to account. That role's being played as strongly as it ever has been."

The winners will be announced at the British Journalism Awards reception on Tuesday, 2 December, at Stationers' Hall in London.

There are no shortlists for Journalist of the Year or the Marie Colvin Award for raising the reputation of our trade.

‘My livelihood’s been stolen by banking giant’, ‘600 new jobs on the scrapheap’.

Jonathan Calvert and Heidi Blake – The Sunday Times

RBS ‘kills off good firms for profit’

Jim Armitage – The Independent/i/London Evening Standard

‘Asian tycoon’s empire takes up to £630m from blackout energy firm’, ‘The Tory donor whose firm is one of Britain’s biggest tax avoiders’ and ‘Revealed: how private firms make quick killing from PFI’.

Chris Giles – The Financial Times

‘China to overtake US economy this year’, ‘Flawed data on rich weaken Piketty’s main argument’.

Jeff Prestridge – The Mail on Sunday

‘How bosses at copycat tax website sang ‘We’re In The Money’ as they racked up £7m in just four months’, ‘Stop the greedy firms that prey on flat owners’ and ‘Thousands face tax bombshell over lifetime pension plans’.

‘V&A’s false eyelashes exhibit set to spark debate on fashion ethics’, ‘Orangutans vanish from their forest home as high street giants slake our thirst for palm oil’ and ‘The tea pickers sold into slavery’.

Peter Spiegel – Financial Times

‘It was the point where the eurozone could have imploded’ – investigative series looking at how EU’s leader’s saved the euro.

Martin Chulov – The Guardian

‘Arrest that exposed wealth and power of Iraq jihadists’, ‘Inside Syria: ancient ways to kill amid the barbarity of a civil war’ and ‘Manhunt for a British murderer with hostages’ fate in his hands’.

Richard Lloyd Parry – The Times

Reports from aftermath of typhoon Haiyan in Philippines: ‘City of despair and decay’, ‘One man’s fearful journey to find out if his family survived’ and ‘Typhoon victims allowed to loot simply to stay alive’.

‘One short-term lender for every seven banks on high street’, ‘Unmasked: the city institutions given privileged status in the controversial Royal Mail flotation', 'United & Cecil Club funnels cash to Conservative must-win marginals'.

Politics Journalist of the Year

‘Billionaires and lobbyists at lavish part with David Cameron’, ‘Russian banker pays £160k to play tennis with David Cameron and Boris Johnson’ and ‘Questions over Tory donation linked to Russian banker’.

David Hencke, Exaro

‘MPs call on Theresa May to set up inquiry into child abuse’, ‘Every MP asked to back inquiry into organised child sex abuse’ and ‘Baroness Butler Sloss faces another hitch in heading CSA inquiry’